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title: "What is Long-tail keywords in Search Console? | Kodalogic"
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[Glossary](/glossary)/Long-tail keywords

Google Search Console · Concept

# What is Long-tail keywords?

Long-tail keywords are longer, more specific search queries, usually four words or more, that each have low search volume but together make up most of a site's search traffic. Short-tail keywords are the one-to-three-word queries with high volume and high competition.

| Query                                  | Words | Impr.  | CTR  |
| -------------------------------------- | ----- | ------ | ---- |
| seo report                             | 2     | 12,400 | 1.1% |
| seo report template free               | 4     | 1,900  | 4.8% |
| monthly seo report for clients         | 5     | 640    | 7.2% |
| how to build seo report in data studio | 8     | 210    | 9.5% |

Four or more words: fewer impressions, clearer intent, better CTR.

Data source

Google Search Console

Type

Concept

## Why it matters

The tail is where a smaller site wins. Nobody outranks a global brand for "[seo report](/glossary/seo-report)", but "seo report template for agencies data studio" is a query with a clear intent and a page that answers it can take it.

## How to read it

Measure the tail by word count, which is what a report can compute, and read the split with its [CTR](/glossary/ctr): long-tail queries typically show higher click-through and better positions because they match the page more closely. A tail that grows in keywords but not in clicks is appearing, not winning.

## In a Data Studio report

In a Data Studio (formerly [Looker Studio](/glossary/looker-studio)) report keyword length is a computed dimension over Search Console queries: a short-tail versus long-tail split with keyword counts, a breakdown by number of words, and a page per length type listing the queries with [impressions](/glossary/impressions), clicks, CTR and position.

## Where to find it in Google Search Console

Search Console: Performance, then Search results, then Queries, filtered with a regular expression for four or more words; the split by word count is computed in the report.

Shown in these dashboards

* [![Google Search Console Dashboard for Data Studio dashboard](https://kodalogic.com/cdn/templates_images/0202_01QJQ390R8S96SM7H8HUO890PKYJ5MHA_0000.webp)](/template/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio)  
[Google Search Console Dashboard for Data Studio](/template/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio)$129
* [![Web & SEO Dashboard for Data Studio — GA4 + Search Console dashboard](https://kodalogic.com/cdn/templates_images/0234_OWGD0CDWC95GHLYIXC8I0K97PT5ZRQVE_0000.webp)](/template/web--seo-performance-dashboard)  
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* [![All-in-One Marketing Dashboard for Data Studio dashboard](https://kodalogic.com/cdn/templates_images/0235_VE78OLDV9VA3KZRHCCPIEFB0MQ7ZW8Y7_0000.webp)](/template/all-in-one-dashboard-looker-studio-web-seo-ads)  
[All-in-One Marketing Dashboard for Data Studio](/template/all-in-one-dashboard-looker-studio-web-seo-ads)$289
[See the dashboards](/templates)

![Long-tail keywords on the Keyword analysis page of the Google Search Console Dashboard for Data Studio](/informes/2026-09-02/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio/05.webp)

Page 5, Keyword analysis, of the [Google Search Console Dashboard for Data Studio](/template/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio).[Open the live demo](https://lookerstudio.google.com/embed/reporting/e8ebacd4-1831-49ea-89e0-a0888225d653/page/p%5F8fiespkekd) to see it with real data.

## See it in a report

[Google Search Console dashboard](/template/google-search-console-template-for-looker-studio)[SEO report template](/report-templates/seo-report)

## Related terms

* [SEO report](/glossary/seo-report)
* [Impressions](/glossary/impressions)
* [CTR](/glossary/ctr)
* [Looker Studio](/glossary/looker-studio)
* [Keyword ranking](/glossary/keyword-ranking)
* [Keyword ranking report](/glossary/keyword-ranking-report)

[← Search intent](/glossary/search-intent)[All 49 terms](/glossary)[Keyword clustering →](/glossary/keyword-clustering)